The Iconoclasts

 

^{Prada The Iconoclasts returns for its third chapter during the international fashion weeks. Three of cinema’s most acclaimed, visionary costume designers take over the visual identities of three Prada flagship stores. They each bring their refined sense of filmic style and drama. Prada New York Broadway will be transformed by MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN between February 12th to February 19th.}

ARIANNE PHILLIPS dresses the Prada Old Bond Street, London store from February 20th to February 24th.

And during March 5th till March 11th, Paris’ Prada Faubourg Saint Honoré store will host the legendary MILENA CANONERO. This step towards collaborating with costume designers is a natural evolution for Prada The Iconoclasts, which previously invited leading fashion editors. Prada is not only committed to the experimental encounter between fashion and other worlds, but it continues to be moved by cinema’s most brilliant auteurs.

 

 

MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN:

“Miuccia Prada’s Spring/Summer 2015 collection inspired us to imagine a party to end all parties. The end of disco. An After Party for New York’s most elite, the most avant-garde, a place where people strut and swagger, uptown meets downtown, celebrity meets street style. Each character is an individual, each is a non-conformist, each parties like it’s 1979. No one wants to leave, because, if they do, the fantasy will vanish.”

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS:

“Fashion, like film, is about dreaming and telling stories so this seemed like a natural conversation for me to have with the very inspiring and beautiful Spring/Summer 2015 collection.”

MILENA CANONERO:

“I imagined interpreting the Prada Spring/Summer 2015 collection through the filter of the five elements and their interconnection. Like feng shui, the ancient Chinese philosophy inspired by Taoism that teaches us to harmonise our surroundings with the environment and nature, I felt this philosophy was appropriate to this specific, rich and varied collection by Miuccia Prada. Drawing on my background in film, photography and painting, I sought to reinterpret the collection through the four elements – water, fire, air and earth – and create imaginary situations that culminate in the fifth element, human love.”

MICHAEL WILKINSON + TIM MARTIN

 

 

MICHAEL WILKINSON and TIM MARTIN recently created WilkinsonMartin, a company at the intersection of film, design and fashion.

Building on their respective careers in film costume design and architecture, WilkinsonMartin consults, designs and directs high-end fashion and product ranges, along with art-based projects in the fashion world.

The company combines over 25 years of Martin’s architectural and interior design experience with Wilkinson’s singular costume design expertise from designing over 30 films (including 300, TRON, AMERICAN HUSTLE, MAN OF STEEL, the upcoming BATMAN VS SUPERMAN and Jennifer Lawrence’s JOY.)

Michael Wilkinson is an award-winning costume designer. Variety magazine recently included Wilkinson in their BELOW THE LINE IMPACT list of filmmakers that have significant impact in their field of expertise. Michael has been nominated for an Oscar and a BAFTA Award, and has won Costume Designers Guild Awards, Saturn Awards, a Hollywood Film Festival Award and a Hamilton Behind the Camera Award. He is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), and the Costume Designers Guild (CDG). He has been a speaker at LACMA, Comic-Con, UCLA, the Director’s Guild of America, AMPAS and numerous other events.

Tim Martin’s background as architect and exhibition designer involves high-end production, innovative construction, and new technologies and materials: a perfect cornerstone for the spirit of WilkinsonMartin. Previous clients include California Academy of Sciences, Presidential foundations, J. Paul Getty Museum, Australian Museum, and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. Along with running a private practice, previous positions held include Senior Designer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City.

 

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS

 

 

ARIANNE PHILLIPS is one of the most unique Costume Designers working today, a gifted visual artist who brings her exemplary eye to film, fashion and music of which for the past 20 years she has worked seamlessly.

Best highlighted and often blurring the lines between film and fashion in her 17 years of collaborating with Madonna, which has included such diverse projects as 5 album covers, numerous magazine editorials; over twenty music videos; London’s West End Theater production of UP FOR GRABS; the film SWEPT AWAY; as well as the Award winning costumes for the singer’s past 5 world tours: 2001 DROWNED WORLD tour, 2004 REINVENTION tour, 2006 CONFESSIONS tour, 2008/2009 STICKY AND SWEET tour, and 2012 world tour for MDNA.

As a Costume Designer for film she has been recognized twice with Oscar nominations 2006 for Jim Mangold’s WALK THE LINE, her second Oscar nomination in 2012 for Madonna’s directorial debut of W.E. of which she was acknowledged by her colleagues with The Costume Designer Guild Award. Additionally she was nominated for a BAFTA for her work in Tom Ford’s directorial debut of A SINGLE MAN.

In 2014 she was nominated for a Tony Award for her designs for the Broadway production of HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH.

Her career as a Costume Designer includes notable films such as:

3:10 TO YUMA starring Russell Crowe and Christian Bale; Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz’s KNIGHT AND DAY as well as ONE HOUR PHOTO; GIRL, INTERRUPTED; THE PEOPLE VS. LARRY FLYNT; IDENTITY; HEDWIG AND THE ANGRY INCH;

TANK GIRL and THE CROW.

Arianne’s most recent release of Matthew Vaughn’s KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, reuniting Phillips with

Mr. Colin Firth, as well as Sir Michael Caine and Samuel L. Jackson. Along with the release of KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE, Arianne partnered with MR PORTER to create and design the first “Costume to Collection” authentic merchandising, counting KINGSMAN as truly the first shoppable film continuing Arianne’s conversation with film and fashion.

In between film, fashion and music projects, Phillips also works as a freelance fashion editor/stylist, collaborating with photographers for such publications as V Magazine, Interview, Italian Vogue, LOVE, and W Magazine, to name a few.

MILENA CANONERO

 

 

MILENA CANONERO is one of the originators of the success of Italian figurative culture in the film world.

Her work as a costume designer is recognized in the world over through her collaborative efforts with the great masters of cinema.

The most memorable include Stanley Kubrick’s BARRY LYNDON, Hugh Hudson’s CHARIOTS OF FIRE, Alan Parker’s MIDNIGHT EXPRESS, Francis Ford Coppola’s THE GODFATHER PART III, Sydney Pollack’s OUT OF AFRICA, Warren Beatty’s DICK TRACY, Louis Malle’s DAMAGE, Sofia Coppola’s MARIE ANTOINETTE, Roman Polanski’s CARNAGE, Wes Anderson’s THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL and many others, earning her numerous awards.

Milena also designed sets and costumes for Barbet Schroeder’s film Single White Female and for the Italian theatre version of Amadeus, directed by Roman Polanski, as well as numerous other operas and plays for the Metropolitan Opera House, the Vienna State Opera and La Scala directed by Otto Schenk and Luc Bondy.